Joe Biden will become the oldest US president to run for re-election. Author: Pennsylvania
United States President Joe Biden officially announced on Tuesday that he will run for re-election in the 2024 election. Through a post posted on social media, the president officially confirmed what he had put forward in various interviews. He also officially announced that his running mate again will be Kamala Harris, writes DW.
“When I ran for president four years ago, I said we were fighting for the soul of America. And we still are,” the president said in a video called Libertad, in which he confirmed that he would run again for the presidency of the country.
“Every generation has a moment when it must defend democracy, defend its fundamental freedoms. I think this is our moment. That’s why I’m running for re-election as President of the United States. Join us. Let’s finish the job,” he wrote on his personal Twitter account.
Every generation has moments when they have to defend democracy. To defend their fundamental freedoms. I believe it’s ours.
That’s why I’m running for re-election as President of the United States. Join us. Let’s finish the job. https://t.co/V9Mzpw8Sqy pic.twitter.com/Y4NXR6B8ly
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) April 25, 2023
Biden, who at 80 is the oldest president in his country’s history, chose this Tuesday, April 25, to make his intentions official because only today marks four years since he launched the election campaign that brought him to the White House. then President Donald Trump (2017-2020) in the 2020 election.
In his message Tuesday, the Democrat warned of “MAGA extremists” — in reference to Trump’s “Make America Great Again” campaign slogan — a phrase he commonly uses to refer to Republican lawmakers closest to the controversial ex-conservative president. .
“They are preparing to take away your fundamental freedoms by slashing the social security you have paid all your life and cutting taxes on the rich. Dictate medical decisions that women can make, ban books and tell people who they can love,” Biden said in his message.
Biden plans to run based on the legislative achievements he made in the first half of his presidency, when the Democrats had a thin but decisive majority in Congress, the BBC notes.
During those two years, Biden signed the American Rescue Plan, which provided significant financial relief to households that continued to struggle with the severity of the coronavirus pandemic.
He also passed the bipartisan Infrastructure Act, which is expected to bring much-needed improvements to America’s roads, bridges and broadband in the coming years, as well as the bipartisan Safer Communities Act, the first major federal gun safety bill passed. almost 30 years old.
But perhaps Biden’s most important legislative achievement to date has been the signing of the Lower Inflation Act, a comprehensive climate and health package that represents America’s most significant response to the climate crisis.
Source: Juventud Rebelde
